Update on the Deaf Cultural Digital Library
Submitted by Alec C. McFarlane, President, Library for Deaf Action Our work on behalf of the Deaf Cultural Digital Library (DCDL) continues. We are working to put this on the National Agenda at ALA and we are working to get support from the professionals and the grass roots populace from within and without ALA. With almost 60,000 members...
New Report from OCLC on Library Consortia
OCLC recently released a new report: U.S. Library Consortia: A Snapshot of Priorities & Perspectives. This report details findings from a study OCLC conducted with U.S. library consortia in 2012 to learn about the demographic make-up of their groups, their strategic initiatives, their groups’ challenges and top methods for communicating with their members. The report is available HERE....
Brooklyn Public Library’s English Conversation Group Program
While Brooklyn Public Library’s English Conversation Groups provide a wonderful opportunity for English language learners to increase their listening and speaking skills, they have also become essential for another reason as well. Many English language learners often mention that it can be difficult to use the new language skills they have acquired because they lack the...
Colorado Starts to Migrate
Submitted by Lisa Priebe, Assistant Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), lpriebe@clicweb.org The Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) was awarded a 2012-2013 LSTA grant to help pay migration costs for several small rural libraries to AspenCat, a union catalog of 35 small public, school, academic, and special libraries. AspenCat runs on an open source Koha system...
Services for Older Adults
Submitted by Diantha Dow Schull, DDSchull Associates, www.ddschull.com It is my pleasure to announce publication of 50+ Library Services: Innovation in Action, published by ALA Editions. This book examines the key issues driving change in how libraries work with older adults, and explores the implications of these changes for the library profession. The research...